Rhetoricbuster

I keep hearing from people against the war in Iraq that they want to bring attention to the enormity of the problem. They want to help the troops. They want to prevent needless death. These people insult my intelligence. Let’s be straight up with this, they hate George Bush, period. That is the driving cause.

They seek to make a noble cause ignoble. They seek to sway public opinion and convince the American public that ‘BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED’ when they should be trying to tell the truth and say that ‘Terrorism knows no bounds’ or ‘Explode and Ignore’ was a bad policy. We have to stop these barbarians that will hack off heads, torture five year olds, hide in the shadows, and attack us contrary to the Geneva Conventions.

In fact, I am not sure why it is not pointed out constantly that the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are in fact culpable for the majority of civilian deaths in Iraq, since the Geneva Conventions clearly state that un-flagged combatants operating from civilian areas are deemed the cause of the resulting civilian carnage. I never hear the Geneva Conventions mentioned at all unless a soldier is bad.

Back to the concept of ‘enormity of the problem’, if needless deaths are really the enormity of the problem, then 60,000 people killed violently must be more enormous than Iraq deaths (what about Afghanistan?). And then 160,000 people killed from stupidity and negligence must be bigger still. All during the same time frame as 3400 valiant soldier’s death.

Well, the crickets are chirping on those topics. So it seems clear to be motivated by a hatred of George Bush and there seems to be the will to use our valiant soldiers as political pawns in this oh so political information war in Iraq. Let me repeat what these anti war protesters say, “We want to save lives”. Actually they don’t because their focus would be on the enormity of the problem. Really it is not about needless death, it is about George Bush must fail. They do not understand that if George Bush fails, America fails. For all the people who believe that America must fail, you are wrong. This failure to succeed will cost more lives than anyone can imagine. The terrorists have stated they want to blow up an American city with a nuclear bomb.  Just today on Memorial Day, the New York Times ran a story about how an 83 member unit has lost faith in the mission. The reporter only spoke to ‘more than a dozen’, but it was clear the unit agreed. The same article, through insinuation, tries to say that the Iraqi Army is full of people who work with the USA during the day, and then fight is when they are off duty. The article left no possibility that Sunni terrorists loyal to Saddam and chaos could be trying to infiltrate the Iraqi army. Or the Mahdi militia terrorists, or Al-qaeda terrorists, or any other twisted set of terrorists! Just date farmers and taxis drivers fighting against the great occupier 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They told me to write a letter to the editor about the Republican Debate and use these talking points: I refute them quickly and with facts:

Tom Tancredo believes that immigration is an “issue of our culture itself, and whether we will survive.”   

Unless immigrants assimilate to our society, our culture as we know it now will cease to exist. We will be a conclave culture system, a regressive society with more social unrest. There is no doubt, look at France et. al., look at Russia, and look at the former Yugoslavia.

Mitt Romney thinks that it’s “entirely possible” that Iraq hid weapons of mass destruction in Syria. None of the expert weapon inspectors actually accounted for what we knew he had. Hans Blix had the best answer, since we could not find anything, it must have been destroyed. David Kay when asked could not confirm his assessment that Iraq destroyed its weapons, past the fact he could not find them. Charles Duelfer, searched the largest segment of Iraq, he covered 27% of the geographical area and 100% of the sites unfettered from watchers. Kay was next with about 18% geographical area and 8% of the site unfettered from watchers, followed by Blix with about 10% geographical area and 2% of the site unfettered from watchers (his was a compromised mission). Charles Duelfer does not seem to fall prey to the ego. As a weapons inspector, your job is to search sites and report your findings. When Saddam was in power, there was no real access, no matter what the ego said at the time. Why didn’t Kay or Blix find what Duelfer did? If Kay or Blix had found 1.7 tons of yellowcake, what would you have said? Duelfer found it and the cry was “Where are the stockpiles?”. When the cry should have been “How the hell did Kay and Blix miss it, and what else did they miss”. Then Jim McDermott D-WA gave Saddam about 7 months warning that the US was going to invade over WMD. 

And an overwhelming majority stood up in front of First Lady Nancy Reagan last week and told her they would not support federally-funded stem cell research.  Yes, they told her that they opposed federally funded embryonic stem cell research. They all support federally funded adult stem cell and cord blood stem cell research. That’s what happened here in Maryland. Ben Cardin lied and said that Michael Steele did not support federally-funded stem cell research. Yet, he only opposes embryonic stem cell research. Plus the other lie, voting to defund the war. I am still waiting! They think that Republicans are going to vote for Democrats. Independants, sure, but not Republicans.

I also wrote this to the editor of the Post and the ombudsman

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050601255.html 

I hardly ever read the style section. As a white democrat, are you trying to imply if I don’t vote for Sen. Obama, I am racist?   “Has the nation’s white majority evolved to a point where it can elect a black man as president?” What is meant by ‘evolved’? I don’t have gills or a tail, if that’s what you mean.   “And Fueyo knows a good bit about what “white America” thinks.” I am 44 and I disagree with this Mr. Fueyo, he has no more insight on “white America”, than any of us. I have met racists and still, in the last 25 years, racial jokes and epithets are rare in my life. 

 “White voters have had a history of telling pollsters they will vote along their party lines when faced with a black candidate; then, in the privacy of the booth, they cross party lines to vote for the white candidate.” Exactly what is the source of this information? I never saw that polling data. Pollsters have been saying like this for years, they usually know exactly how the get the answers they are looking for. When they are wrong, they seem to be blaming racist whites who vote the racial line. What about blacks that vote the racial line, is that as bad? 

“If he were more like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, several people said, Obama would resonate far less among whites than he does now.” – yes if Obama was a professional racist protester that shook down corporations for love money, race baited with Tawana Brawley, or even got Don Imus fired, then yes that would not resonate with the American people (white and black). Again, why just whites?

I obviously disagree that the majority of whites are racist, but the one correct thing in the article was the statement by Heran, as the original hate dies (racist white and black people who lived during segregated times). The original hate cannot be passed down to the next generation; it will slowly die through the generations, by 2050 a distant memory. Currently we have Al Sharpton and others who try to stir the pot and make money off of it. Your newspaper is no stranger to race baiting, read Eugene Robinson and you will see it.